Igniz

Profile

Full name

Birthdate

Height

Weight

Blood type

Family/Relatives

Job/Occupation

NESTS CEO

Likes

God

Dislikes

God

Hobbies

UFO Watching

Favorite food

Space food

Forte in sports

Zen Meditation

Weapon

NESTS Special Suit armed with six tentacles

Fighting style

NESTS-style Boxing Arts

Igniz (イグニス, Igunisu) is the final boss in The King of Fighters 2001. His handsome and youthful appearance was specifically created at the sponsors' request. He becomes the leader of NESTS after he kills Nests.

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Igniz hosts the KOF 2001 tournament in hopes of becoming a new god, deciding to test his new found power against the finalists. In the novel, Igniz labels K' as the strongest warrior and by defeating earths strongest warrior he would surpass all of humanity making him a God. His hopes were short-lived when he is defeated by K'. Cursing his failure and declaring himself a demon instead, Igniz attempts to destroy those who oppose him by plummeting NESTS' main headquarters out of orbit. However, the fortunate passengers in the falling station survive the heat inside it (apparently thanks to Ron). Igniz's death signals the end of the NESTS cartel and its saga.

Igniz is very serious and was for years very faithful to NESTS. When he started gaining more and more power, he started to think himself as a god and found NESTS was too small for him. He becomes a megalomaniac with hopes to rule the entire planet. In keeping with his belief that he is a god, his manner of speech is very preachy. His intro speech, and many of the things he says at the end of the match are brief (but lengthy compared to everyone else's quotes) speeches. In keeping with this, when assaulting opponents with his devastating Brutal God Project attack, he declares that he is casting them down from Heaven. In his Disintegrational Universe attack, he draws power from the Milky Way and uses it against his opponent when he captures them in a crystal ball, which will display the overview of the Milky Way as well.

Energy Blast - Through his suit, he can fire a blast of white energy from each of its tentacles.

Asterokinesis - Igniz' Ergokinesis can take the form of Cosmic Manipulation, gathering energy from the universe as a source of his power.

Energy Absorption - Igniz especial suit can absorb the energy of the galaxy, as in his particular universe in which receives energy from the Milky Way to destroy his opponent.

Divine Power - Igniz' powers could also be taken as divine, heavenly-like.

Divine Empowerment - Igniz can use his divine powers to empower himself or his special suit.

Divine Energy - Igniz manipulates holy energy, using it either through himself or his special suit. It takes the form of white energy.

Magic - Igniz can use mystical abilities seen in a few games. But there are theories that he uses this ability in their particular universe invoking the crystal ball that holds the opponent, a mystical symbol can be seen on the ground when Igniz uses this ability.

Great Strength and Resistance - Igniz is shown being very strong and sturdy this skill is supposed to come from his special suit. The strength of his special suit is proven to be stronger than a full-powered Daimon and Maxima combined, its tentacles able to knockdown huge and strong fighters like Daimon and Maxima in a single "tap". The robe is also strong enough to send those fighters flying several meters away in a single sweep, strong enough to ignore strong attacks and protect Igniz.

Like many SNK bosses, Igniz is extremely powerful and difficult to defeat. Igniz relies on his powers and on his special suit. His suit is linked mentally to his mind and it contains two tentacles hidden in his wrists and four tentacles that end in pointed edges.

He had no crouching attack animations, yet had standing attacks that must be guarded low, and could not crouch initially like typical SNK bosses. His basic attacks has far and quick reach, and could poke enemies from a safe distance. Crouching animations and crouching attacks were added to him in KOF2002UM, and has characteristics reminiscent of Zero and his clone.